We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.

Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.